During my turn as Simon - I gave instructions for drawing the house and tree picture above using shape descriptions. For example - Simon says draw a large rectangle. Simon says add a large triangle on top. This was the 1st round we played and I think the Lil Divas did great. The purple drawing was done by the youngest Diva and she got confused on a few of the directions so you can see the difference in their interpretation.

During another round I had them draw clowns also using mostly shapes. You can see below that even the youngest Diva really caught on to the game and was great at following directions.

Both girls really enjoyed this game and it was fun for them to see how mommy and daddy interpreted the directions and sometimes lost for not listening for "Simon says" (ahem, that was me - shh!)

This is a game we will surely be revisiting often. The Lil Divas had lots of fun drawing and coming up with pictures to give directions for. I really like that it's also a sneaky way to reinforce a skill that is very important in school - following directions.